This lucid, scintillating book deepens Pippins exploration of cinemas capacity for filmed thought and challenges transcendental interpretations of the great French directors oeuvre. Pippin identifies ethical, psychological, and philosophical commitments that underpin Bressons distinctive minimalism, approach to performance, and concern for meaning. Beautifully illustrated and full of provocative insights, there is much here for both Bresson aficionados and those seeking an introduction to the inimitable films and worldview of Robert Bresson. -- Jonathan Hourigan, assistant to Robert Bresson on LArgent This singularly beautiful account of Bressons oeuvre asks us to say less about the films and to instead learn to live with their strange, ordinary clarityultimately, to live with each other just as we live with these films. Pippin has done, in my view, what only filmmakers have done before: respond to the power of Bresson in aesthetically sensitive ways that remind us how intensely moving it always is to see and feel his films for the first time. -- Brian Price, University of Toronto Mississauga
